RT @mpesce ‘warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type’ #whatever [You should probably use Pascal for that.]
I’m talking privacy and data retention and stuff on ABC @702sydney etc with @domknight after 2000 AEST. Streamed from abc.net.au/sydney/
And the panel is done. I’ll post a recording in due course. #ACCAN12
Don’t try this at home, folks. #ACCAN12
On stage now at the #ACCAN12 panel on Privacy and Security, streamed from aceinfo.net.au/ACCAN/
Sock my erection instagr.am/p/POMkysCFjP/
Doing my final prep for the #ACCAN12 panel on Privacy and Security, starting 1545 AEST. It’ll be streamed from aceinfo.net.au/ACCAN/
Four Delights instagr.am/p/POFw6aCFgB/
Upon reflection, a lot instagr.am/p/POFK_kiFvg/
Preparing for my afternoon panel, later at #ACCAN12 instagr.am/p/PN_WUQiFr2/
Lunch.
More on data retention in @phildobbie’s “Twisted Wire” podcast, with @JulianBurnside zdnet.com/au/julian-burn…
Sorry, typo. Or braino. Comments about methodology just then were from David Freer, Norton VP Consumer APJ.
Long story short, they’re saying they’ve taken on board the criticism from last year and have made some significant changes in methodology.
Adam Palmer now running through some of the methodological changes since last year. I’ll be writing them up for somewhere tomorrow.
@lewellyn @ericscheid We still don’t have copies of the actual report. Even when we do, it is likely to be a bit thin on methodology.
Currently it’s just a backgrounder on what NSW Fair Trading does. They’ve received 1000 reports this year so far (on and offline).
RT @Bondles: I just love the “We need new powers because of this other case we solved without them” argument re. John Newman
@hartmant Thank you. That’s still one of my favourite pieces from last year.
Next up, Robert Vellar, assistant commissioner for NSW Fair Trading, to talk about current internet-based scams. He must run the portal.
I find it telling that the whinges about how hard these cases are to prosecute are always about OLD cases, not those under newer laws.
Listening to a former prosecutor whinge that following due process costs sooooooo much money.
And now we’re slicing the data cubes. No-one was said the magic word “margin of error” yet. I don’t expect anyone will.
Next up is Norton Cybersecurity Adviser Adam Palmer, former US Navy JAG prosecutor, on some of the global stats.
The one big takeaway is passwords passwords passwords.
RT @servantofchaos: And 10 percent admit they’d check a message during sex #socmed cnet.co/dh45cT
I’m going to ignore the rest of these stats because they’re self-reported and my experience is that people don’t understand the questions.
46% of those surveyed say they’ve been notified to change their password ‘cos it was compromised. [In what period? A year? Ever? Ahem!]
Survey was of ~13,000 people in 24 countries. I note that we have not been given copies of the report yet, just listening to a presentation.
25% don’t think about cybercrime when online because they don’t think it’ll happen to them. [Compared to what with offline crimes? Eh?]
RT @lewellyn: Fake links are total bull. Either a link is live or dead. There’s no “fake”. [Noted. Will ask about this.]
11% say they would end a relationship [what sort?] with someone if they saw something they didn’t like about them on a social network.
18% admit (“admit”?) that when they get to work they check their social networks before checking their work email.
28% say that checking the social network is the first thing they do when they wake up each day.
Claiming 12% have through social networking been a victim of a scam or fake links. (Potential bull: a “fake link” not necessarily a crime.)
Claiming 12% of social networking users have had their account hacked and someone impersonate them. (Branded hacked by “victim”?)
Please note that I think that these estimates of global cybercrime costs are bullshit. cso.com.au/article/400672…
Claiming 1.5 million victims of cybercrime daily. Will ask if their definition of cybercrime has changed, ‘cos last year it was way dodgy.
Total cost of cybercrime globally estimate at $100 billion, down from $144 billion bask year, but they hinted at changed methodologies.
At the launch of the 2012 Norton Cybercrime Report at Sydney’s Justice & Police Museum. Random observations will follow for an hour or so.
Cyberpastries! instagr.am/p/PNyftviFhN/
Seriously, something needs to be done about these senseless defence budget cuts instagr.am/p/PNwoj1CFgB/
More from Harry instagr.am/p/PNuJVViFuM/
Grown-ups instagr.am/p/PNt0uliFt4/
@lewellyn Yeah we’ve got all sorts of alien space pods here.
I didn’t get time to take her pic, but I reckon the phone’s image sensor would have burnt out.
Lanky late-40s woman, orange fake tan, platinum bleached hair tied with lemon yellow band, fluoro yellow lycra all-in-one, pink trainers.
Chasm instagr.am/p/PNsyIDCFtP/
@marcfennell You could get more leverage from that joke, surely?
A thing full of rubbish, behind somewhere to dispose of your litter instagr.am/p/PNsPbnCFs5/
RT @nazzer LOL autocorrect: antisiphoning=christianising natsecurity=mastectomy [Smirk.]
Give it a spin! instagr.am/p/PNraXWCFsV/
Number of customers currently in Samsung Experience Store, George St, Sydney: 6. Apple Store (ground floor only): 19.
RT @rycrozier: Hmm, autocorrect keeps changing “Govts” to “goats”. [Yes, and?]
Mobile: Drop off washing; stroll through Sydney CBD to Circular Quay; 1100 launch of Norton Cybercrime Report, Justice & Police Museum.
NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research June 2012 quarter crime figures are out. lawlink.nsw.gov.au/Lawlink/bocsar… [PDF]
@nanopunk You really are a bit special.
RT @juhasaarinen: StilGreerian; a photographic study by @nanopunk pic.twitter.com/H1eCknyo [Oh. Dear. God. No.]
“[Alexander] Downer’s mouth is solely for canapés going in, dodgey karaoke coming out, and self-satisfied smugness in between.”
Urging us to take a cold shower in response to new laws is a timeless cliché. Here’s me on Rudd from 2006. stilgherrian.com/politics/rudd_…
Note the age-old tactic there: criticism is framed as “hysteria”. Thank you, Attorney-General.
Attorney-General Nicola Roxon wants us to have a “cold shower” with her on data retention laws. zdnet.com/au/roxon-calls…
Did I just see @mpesce say “We need something beyond hyper”? Yes. Yes I did. twitter.com/mpesce/status/…
noisymime Gotta love the Little Old Lady discretely pouring whisky into her coffee on the train. She knows the score.
@lewellyn What does this word “tequila” mean?It’s quite new to me, Your Honour.
I feel dreadful.
s_bridges Tomorrow on Russia Today: “Putin cooks up improved Higgs boson on his stove”
@Idealaw Whether $stocks “work” like #hashtags, i.e. turn into links, is a client-side matter not the Twitter messaging core.
baratunde why is it when politicians brag about things “americans do best,” they never include “frying things” on the list?? #dnc2012 #greatquestion
Thank you, @nanopunk, for providing us with the solution for smartarse Finns. bit.ly/OnI1fX
@NewtonMark Oh you cynic. I’m sure Symantec realised last year’s Norton Cybercrime Report was bullshit and they’ve rectified that. Surely.
Symantec release their new Norton Cybercrime Report today. I was most unimpressed with last year’s. cso.com.au/article/400672…
Well since you all seem to keen, it’s time to go through The Change again.
Something needs to be done about all these smartarse Finns. Well the two that I know, anyway.
RT @juhasaarinen: @paulwallbank And thus, StilGreerian is born. [Uhoh. Ping @SnarkyPlatypus @kcarruthers]
paulwallbank Discombobulated that @stilgherrian and Germaine Greer are on the same ticket at the Sydney Opera House. Wondering how we tell them apart.
@kcarruthers @paulwallbank Really? Why not? In my last presentation, at Consilium, I mentioned Prince Harry’s pubic hair. True.
“NBN questions for Malcolm Turnbull” from Steve Jenkin. technologyspectator.com.au/nbn-questions-…
@Idealaw “Swashbucking”? Larry Ellison, cutlass between his teeth, leaping onto an enemy ship with the aid of a rope?
BernardKeane So horse racing is corrupt. Wow. Big shock there.
Putin … motorized hang glider … dressed in crane costume … help endangered birds find their way. theatlantic.com/technology/arc… #brainimplosion
@SnarkyPlatypus Well I’ll admit it tastes a bit weird.
film_girl Twitter’s new API changes discontinue RSS, Atom and XML endpoints. dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/o…
@SnarkyPlatypus Je pensais que “50 Nuances de Gris” a été plus long que ça?
“Your Data Is Safe With Nicola Roxon”, writes @MylesPeterson, presumably smirking. newmatilda.com/2012/09/05/no-…
@kristinmoore2 Alas, there’s no time in my schedule today to appreciate the museum as a museum.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je suis l’hippopotame du buffet.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Après une nuit d’insomnie ma stratégie pour faire face à la lumière du jour est l’hippopotame affamé faim. Et vous?
Thu plan, highlights: 1100 Symantec launch, Police & Justice Museum; 1545 Privacy & Security panel, #ACCAN12; dinner somewhere pleasant.
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales reckons UK’s data retention plans are ‘technologically incompetent’ guardian.co.uk/technology/201…
At least Mistress Insomnia has let me be reasonably productive so far today. Bitch.
chris23 Swarming LED quadrocopters. Drones as pixels. Skyborn adverts likely to follow… engt.co/OX58zd via @engadget
@StremorJoe Indeed. Though you get to stay on much the same time zone. I was just settling into PDT when I returned to AEST yesterday.
Since I’m awake I might as well get a bit of audio editing out of the way. At 0250 EST. Mid-week. In a hotel room. Sigh.
Oh right. I fall asleep before 2000 AEST and am now awake at 0200 AEST. I believe that’d be the result of jet lag. Poo. Oh well, so be it.